Nintendo DS is sold, while God of War II leads the games.


NPD Group has announced the results of games sold in the American market during the month of March, with a fort increase with respect to he himself period of the previous year, maintaining the tonic of increase of the market that has occurred months in the last.

The sales reflect the period of the 5 of March to the 7 of April and show, in the sales of videojuegos, an increase of 15% with respect to he himself month of the previous year (moving 574 million dollars), whereas the console sales have been increased in a 69%, until the 370 million dollars. The total numbers of the industry (what includes games, peripheral consoles and) add 1,000 million dollars, a total increase of 33% with respect to the previous year.

The sold console more has been portable Nintendo DS, surpassing console means million. Wii has been placed thirdly, behind the veteran but still it signs PlayStation 2. Xbox 360 clears 200,000 consoles, in the fourth position, whereas the portable one of Sony is located in front of the veteran Game Boy Advance. Finally, PlayStation 3 is less sold with 130,000 consoles.

The list is the following one:



1. Nintendo DS: 508.000
2. PlayStation 2:280.000
3. Wii: 259.000
4. Xbox 360:199.000
5. Portable PlayStation: 180.000
6. Game Boy Advance: 148.000
7. PlayStation 3:130.000

The sales of games, on the other hand, have had in God of War II, of PS2, its sold game more, duplicating in sales to the second sold game more, the edition of Xbox 360 of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. The yield of Guitar Hero II is also remarkable, that in spite of leaving few days before the measurements of the sales were closed, has surpassed the 290,000 games sold in hardly mediates week. The best game in the Nintendo consoles is Wii Play, just behind the musical title, whereas PlayStation 3 locates just to Motorstorm behind. The complete list of the most sold is this one:

1. God of War II (PS2): 833.000
2. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (Xbox 360): 394.000
3. Guitar Hero 2 (Xbox 360): 291.000
4. Wii Play (Wii): 273.000
5. MotorStorm (PS3): 199.000
6. Diddy Kong Racing (NDS): 189.000
7. Spectrobes (NDS): 165.000
8. MLB 2K7 (Xbox 360): 165.000
9. MLB '07: The Show (PS2): 164.000
10. Def Jam Icon (Xbox 360): 148.000

Sony has wanted to emphasize numbers of PlayStation 2, of that it has remembered that has been located in front of all consoles of new generation, the time that has indicated that the only console of the new ones that has increased its sales with respect to the month of February it has been PlayStation 3.

Nintendo, on the other hand, has indicated that it has had distribution problems and it has not been able to replace the demand, although has been satisfied by the yield of its consoles, affirming that “Wii is the new console that more express is sold in more than one decade” during his first five months, having sold more systems during this year that “the rest of together manufacturers.”

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